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Achieving Sustainable Urban Agriculture

by Johannes S. C. Wiskerke , Nevin Cohen , Laine Young
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781786763167
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Ltd
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  • Pages: 408
  • Original Price: USD 195.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 717 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture

This volume reviews research on building urban and peri-urban agricultural networks, the use of technologies such as rooftop and vertical farming systems, as well as providing case studies of particular products from urban farming.

Alsanius, B. W.: - Beatrix Waechter Alsanius is an internationally leading researcher on sustainable food production in horticultural cropping systems, emphasizing on the use of microorganisms for environmentally-sound cropping systems, threats of human and plant pathogens in horticultural production chains and food safety of vegetables and fruit. She has a Ph.D. from Bonn university (1991), Germany and combined her assistant professorship at SLU (1992-1998) with different postdoctorate leaves at INRA, France and USDA-ARS/Washington State University, Pullman, WA, US. She was habilitated in horticulture in 1999 and in plant protection ecology in 2006 at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Since 2009 her current position is chair professor in horticulture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Alnarp, Sweden. During 2010 to 2013 she acted also as an adjunct professor in phytology at Université Laval, Québec, Canada and headed from 2009-2014 the international postgraduate school "Microbial Horticulture (µHORT)", funded by the Swedish research council Formas. Within her position at SLU Alnarp she leads the research activities at the Microbial Horticulture Unit.

Wiskerke, Johannes S. C.: -

Professor Han Wiskerke is Professor of Rural Sociology at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He was founding Editor of the journal Urban Agriculture and Regional Food Systems and guest editor of the special issue 'City Region Foodscapes' of the journal Sustainability. He has coordinated a series of major EU projects on urban and peri-urban agriculture and food provisioning such as 'FOODLINKS', 'PUREFOOD' and 'SUPURBFOOD'. Since 2017 he has been coordinator of the EU-funded project ROBUST, which focuses on urban-rural relations and synergies. He has written widely on these topics and other aspects of food provisioning and rural development.

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